> On Aug 29, 10:02 pm, Day Brown daybrown.org> wrote:

>> has begun to be unraveled by the human genome and the DNA markers that
>> indicate the effect of dietary deficit and contamination, the effect of
>> chemicals on the development of children, and the resulting
>> socio-pathology from having parents whose minds did not develop properly
>> either.
>>
>> The condition has also become global. Demographics show that kids raised
>> on family farms, especially the Amish, Mennonite, etc, do not have the
>> same degree or variety of mental pathologies like ADD, autism, ADHD,
>> ICD, etc. The small town schools these kids go to dont have the same
>> rate of violence or dropouts, have better test scores, and higher
>> graduation rates.
>>
>> These kids are not raised on sugar cereals, junkfood, and soda either.
>> You can track the decline in academic performance with the rise in the
>> use of agribusiness petrochemicals. And this has been going on so long
>> that it has lowered the level of rationality in the electorate so that
>> the level of demagoguery has increased and the rate of effective policy
>> has declined.
>>
>> If you grew up exposed to this crap and are still rational, you are damn
>> lucky. Any look at all the ad hominum in the postings shows how high the
>> rate of neurosis is. Dr. Freud noted how when you present the facts to a
>> neurotic, he is angry, not educated. So, rational discourse here, or
>> anywhere else will not result in solutions. He also said that it takes a
>> severe trauma to awake a neurotic from his delusions.
>>
>> If we have a severe economic crisis, we can expect an awakening. But we
>> also know people will wake up angry, and you do not want to be in their
>> way as they seek vengeance and start dragging the bastards out to be
>> shot. Both Oriental and Occidental sages said that in uncertain times
>> its best to have an obscure home in the country.
>>
>> There seems to be some who understand because the fastest growing
>> demographic cited by the Census Bureau is the "X-urb", those who moved
>> out beyond the suburban fringe, often with a hobby farm where they can
>> at least, grow their own food while they await the revolution trying to
>> take back the assets stolen by the Power Elites.
>>
>> IT may not come to that. A pending execution concentrates the mind, but
>> so also, does a pending foreclosure.

>
> ...genetic medicine, a place that researchers say increasing numbers
> of us may visit in the years ahead. In 1997 there were genetic tests
> for about 150 inherited diseases. Today, that figure exceeds 1,100 and
> grows daily. Most tests can't determine for sure that you'll develop a
> specific disease -- but they can often tell you whether you're an
> above-average candidate for a slew of conditions. Positive results can
> spur you into fight mode, hoping to avoid what your twisted strands of
> DNA have in store for you. But, though knowledge is power, it can be
> hard to accept: You're forced to squint into a future in which your
> body is more vulnerable than you expected, and the TMI factor can be
> daunting...
>
> http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/dna-testing
>
> Medical genetics is the specialty of medicine that involves the
> diagnosis and management of hereditary disorders. Medical genetics
> differs from Human genetics in that human genetics is a field of
> scientific research that may or may not apply to medicine, but medical
> genetics refers to the application of genetics to medical care. For
> example, research on the causes and inheritance of genetic disorders
> would be considered within both human genetics and medical genetics,
> while the diagnosis, management, and counseling of individuals with
> genetic disorders would be considered part of medical genetics. In
> contrast, the study of typically non-medical phenotypes such as the
> genetics of eye color would be considered part of human genetics, but
> not necessarily relevant to medical genetics (except in situations
> such as albinism). Genetic medicine is a newer term for medical
> genetics and incorporates areas such as gene therapy and personalized
> medicine.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_genetics
>
> ...The causes of human experience include genes, accidents,
> infections, birth order, teachers, parents, circumstance, opportunity,
> and chance, to name just the most obvious. Sometimes one cause looms
> large, but not always. When you catch a cold the chief cause is a
> virus, but when you catch pneumonia the bacterium is only an
> opportunist-your immune system usually needs to have been run down
> first by starvation, hypothermia, or stress. Is that the "true" cause?
> Likewise, "genetic" diseases such as Huntington's chorea are caused
> precisely and simply by a mutation in one gene; environmental factors
> have almost no influence on the outcome. But phenylketonuria (PKU), a
> form of mental retardation caused by an inability to digest
> phenylalanine, could be said to be caused by the mutation, or by phen-
> ylalanine in the diet-it can be seen as either nature or nurture,
> depending on your bias. How much more complex is the pattern when many
> different genes and many different environmental factors are almost
> certainly involved, as is probably the case with schizophrenia.
>
> NATURE VIA NURTURE - genes, experience, and what makes us human
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060006781/